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""The basic principle of leadership in the U.S. Army, and particularly in light infantry units, is to always try to make decisions at the lowest possible level of command so they can be made as quickly as possible. On the battlefield, hesitation often breeds defeat" (348)." — Mar 30, 2026 08:56AM
""The basic principle of leadership in the U.S. Army, and particularly in light infantry units, is to always try to make decisions at the lowest possible level of command so they can be made as quickly as possible. On the battlefield, hesitation often breeds defeat" (348)." — Mar 30, 2026 08:56AM
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""...the profoundest question that ethics can ask: is a natural ethic possible? Can morality survive without supernatural belief? Can philosophy, by molding an effective secular moral code, save the civilization which its freedom of thought has threatened to destroy? (372)." — Apr 16, 2026 09:06PM
""...the profoundest question that ethics can ask: is a natural ethic possible? Can morality survive without supernatural belief? Can philosophy, by molding an effective secular moral code, save the civilization which its freedom of thought has threatened to destroy? (372)." — Apr 16, 2026 09:06PM
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""Moi, je suis l'Eternel et je n'ai pas change. A cause de cela, descendants de Jacob, vous n'avez pas encore ete extermines. Depuis le temps de vos ancetres, vous vous detournez de mes lois et vous n'y obeissez pas. Revenez donc a moi, et moi, je reviendrai a vous, declare l'Eternel, le Seigneur des armees celestes." - Malachie 3:6-7" — Apr 17, 2026 05:36AM
""Moi, je suis l'Eternel et je n'ai pas change. A cause de cela, descendants de Jacob, vous n'avez pas encore ete extermines. Depuis le temps de vos ancetres, vous vous detournez de mes lois et vous n'y obeissez pas. Revenez donc a moi, et moi, je reviendrai a vous, declare l'Eternel, le Seigneur des armees celestes." - Malachie 3:6-7" — Apr 17, 2026 05:36AM
“I now want to examine a second major feature of Western civilization that derives from Christianity. This is what philosopher Charles Taylor calls the 'affirmation of ordinary life.' It is the simple idea that ordinary people are fallible, and yet these fallible people matter. In this view, society should organize itself in order to meet their everyday concerns, which are elevated into a kind of spiritual framework. The nuclear family, the idea of limited government, the Western concept of the rule of law, and our culture's high emphasis on the relief of suffering all derive from this basic Christian understanding of the dignity of fallible human beings.”
― What's So Great About Christianity
― What's So Great About Christianity
“The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on a large scale before it was too late. But by Christmas of 1941, Washington had already come to regard Bataan as a lost cause. President Roosevelt had decided to concentrate American resources primarily in the European theater rather than attempt to fight an all-out war on two distant fronts. At odds with the emerging master strategy for winning the war, the remote outpost of Bataan lay doomed. By late December, President Roosevelt and War Secretary Henry Stimson had confided to Winston Churchill that they had regrettably written off the Philippines. In a particularly chilly phrase that was later to become famous, Stimson had remarked, 'There are times when men have to die.”
― Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
― Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
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“...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.”
― What's So Great About Christianity
― What's So Great About Christianity
“Not only is religion thriving, but it is thriving because it helps people to adapt and survive in the world. In his book Darwin's Cathedral, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson argues that religion provides something that secular society doesn't: a vision of transcendent purpose. Consequently, religious people have a zest for life that is, in a sense, unnatural. They exhibit a hopefulness about the future that may exceed what is warranted by how the world is going. And they forge principles of morality and charity that simply make them more cohesive, adaptive, and successful than groups whose members lack this binding and elevating force.”
― What's So Great About Christianity
― What's So Great About Christianity
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